"as California Historical Landmark #61 in 1932, and designated as a historical landmark by the San Diego Historical Resources Board in 1970. The original La Playa landing place and Ballast Point are now on the grounds of Naval Base Point Loma. Nothing visible remains of the original sites, which are accessible to the public during the annual Cabrillo Festival and to scholars for occasional archeological digs. A lighthouse stood on Ballast Point from 1890 to 1960; currently there is a simple automated light on the site. La Playa, San Diego La Playa (Spanish for ""the beach"") is a bayfront neighborhood"
"Juan because the harbor has not been dredged out and cannot receive an American battleship."""" By 1913, Playa was ""a dynamic neighborhood with a self-sustained urban development with a population of 5,169 distributed through a residential area dominated by wooden houses, sugar cane farms, churches, schools, hospitals, a cemetery and local industries that promoted the formation of a strong artisan and industrial workers class."" Playa has been called ""Puerto Rico's first planned suburban area"". In 2009, Barrio Playa was a mostly working class barrio of Ponce, with a modern shopping mall, a 4-star hotel, several parks, and numerous sports and"
"Playa (Ponce) Barrio Playa, also known as Playa de Ponce, Ponce Playa, or La Playa, is one of the thirty-one barrios that comprise the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Bucaná, Canas, Vayas, and Capitanejo, Playa is one of the municipality's five coastal barrios. Barrio Playa also incorporates several islands, the largest of which is Caja de Muertos. It was founded in 1831. Playa is an urban barrio located in the southern region of the municipality, within the limits of the city of Ponce, south of the traditional center of the city at Plaza Las Delicias, and on the"
"features such as bathrooms, lifeguards, changing rooms, and picnic tables. Balneario A balneario is an Iberian and Latin American seaside resort town, although they may also occur along great lakes, rivers and at hot springs. In Spain, balneario typically only refers to spa town resorts. Whatever the case, these resorts offer recreation, sports, entertainment, food, hospitality and safety services, retail and cultural events. These balneario towns are characterized by being flooded by masses of tourists during the summer seasons. The word ""Balneario"" comes from Latin ""balnearĭus"" and initially from Greek ""balneae"" from Greek βαλανεῖον ""balaneion"". Balnearios may be as simple"
"Mexico's Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta are balneario city-destinations, for example, while Chile's San Alfonso del Mar is a more planned resort community and its Viña del Mar a city that also happens to be a balneario. Balnearios are characterized by having beaches, hot climates, being seasonal destinations, attracting foreign tourists, and having boom periods surrounding festivals. The word comes from Spanish, and the difference between a """"playa"" (beach) and a balneario is the services provided at the balneario. A beach is simply a stretch of shoreline, usually sandy, while a balneario has amenities. It is a specific recreational destination with"
"Balneario A balneario is an Iberian and Latin American seaside resort town, although they may also occur along great lakes, rivers and at hot springs. In Spain, balneario typically only refers to spa town resorts. Whatever the case, these resorts offer recreation, sports, entertainment, food, hospitality and safety services, retail and cultural events. These balneario towns are characterized by being flooded by masses of tourists during the summer seasons. The word ""Balneario"" comes from Latin ""balnearĭus"" and initially from Greek ""balneae"" from Greek βαλανεῖον ""balaneion"". Balnearios may be as simple as a beach or as complex as a planned city."
"the ""encocado de pescado"", prepared with coconut juice, popular with residents and travelers. Other typical dishes are the tapao, based on fish and plantains, patacones, empanadas, bolas and bolones de verde, also with plantains as base. Playas, is a city of province of Guayas, located in the southwest of the country, along the Pacific Ocean, about 96 kilometers city of Guayaquil. Its population is 34.409 inhabitants until the year (2010), although this rises to winter by the presence of tourists, because of its condition of resort. It is the cantonal head of Canton Playas. Since its founding, Playas was an"
"of a municipality within a municipality. It has a residential area, a tourist area called La Guancha, and a harbor, ""Puerto de Ponce"". Playa has the second longest coastline of all five coastal barrios in Ponce, after Canas. As the major means of external communication for the settlement that was to become the city of Ponce, barrio Playa has a history that is as old as the history of the city of Ponce itself, thus dating back to the 16th century. During the 16th century, barrio Playa was called ""Montones"". Subsequently, during the 17th and 18th centuries, significant contraband took"
"""Paseo Acuático Recinto Data de Villamil"", ""Playa el Arenal"", ""Playa de data de Villamil"", and ""Playa de Puerto Engabao"". Aside from tourism, Playas has a thriving fishing community and is known for its seafood cuisine. Playas is also home to the Gómez Rendón Military Academy. Playas, Ecuador Playas (officially known as General Villamil Playas) is a coastal city located in the province of Guayas, Ecuador. It is the seat of the canton of Playas, created in 1989. As of the census of 2001, there are 24,070 people residing within city limits. The city takes its official name from the independence"
"terraced housing developments and has a promenade with bars and restaurants. Playa de Getares Playa de Getares is a beach in the municipality of Algeciras, southeastern Spain. It overlooks the Bay of Gibraltar about south of the city of Algeciras, between Punta San García and Punta Carnero, where the cliffs begin on the Strait of Gibraltar. It is approximately in length and wide on average. The name comes from a Roman fish salting factory which was located in the old Roman town in the vicinity of Caetaria, and was called Cetares, and then Xetares during the Middle Ages, named in"
"a designation typically used in the Great Basin of the western United States. Another term for dry lake is ""playa"". The Spanish word ""playa"" () literally means ""beach"". Dry lakes are known by this name in some parts of Mexico and the western United States. This term is also used on the Llano Estacado and other parts of the Southern High Plains. In South America, the usual term for a dry lake is ""salar"" or ""salina"", Spanish for ""salt pan"". ""Pan"" is the term used in most of South Africa. These may include the small round highveld pans, typical of"
"Playas, Ecuador Playas (officially known as General Villamil Playas) is a coastal city located in the province of Guayas, Ecuador. It is the seat of the canton of Playas, created in 1989. As of the census of 2001, there are 24,070 people residing within city limits. The city takes its official name from the independence hero, General José de Villamil. Playas is an important tourist center and is located approximately 96 km from Guayaquil. The economy of Playas is largely tourist based with a number of hotels and resorts located in the area. Beaches near Playas include ""Playa General Villamil"","
"Caja de Muertos natural reserve are all located in Barrio Playa. The historic Cardona Island Light, Caja de Muertos Lighthouse, United States Custom House and McCabe Memorial Church, all National Register of Historic Places listed landmarks, are also located in Barrio Playa. Playa also has the most important Caribbean seaport in Puerto Rico, called Port of the Americas. People from La Playa are called ""playeros"". Playa (Ponce) Barrio Playa, also known as Playa de Ponce, Ponce Playa, or La Playa, is one of the thirty-one barrios that comprise the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Bucaná, Canas, Vayas, and"
"Placer (geography) Placer ( or ""pracel"") is a term used by Spanish and Portuguese navigators and cartographers to refer to a certain kind of submerged bank or reef. Commonly the bottom of such a reef is sandy, but there are some where the bottom is muddy or stoney. Although most reefs designated as placer are flat and shallow, exceptionally there are some that do not share those characteristics and are known as ""placer acantilado"". A placer usually provides an anchorage for seagoing vessels. Spanish navigator and explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa commented that ""placer"" likely originated as a term derived"
"Playa del Inglés Playa del Inglés (, lit. ""Englishman's Beach"") is a sea resort in the south coast of the island of Gran Canaria. It is part of the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, and is a popular tourist attraction. The resident population was 7,515 in 2013. There is some dispute upon the origin of the resort's name. One explanation is that an English bohemian moved to the untouched area early in the 20th century. However, it has been stated that the Bohemian was actually French, but was mistaken as English by the locals. Playa del Inglés forms part"
"the world at the time. They are an impressive complex of buildings along the ""Rambla Casino"", which has a monumental staircase with stone sculptures of sea lions on each side. Small traditional bars opened in the arcades of the ""Hotel Provincial"" and the Casino, many of them now gone. Over time the beach eroded until it became quite narrow. In 1999 new sand was brought in, and it is now almost from the promenade to the shore. The beach is the most popular in Mar del Plata, mainly due to its proximity to the commercial centre of the city. Playa"
"local people refer to these beaches as ""La Mansa"" (which means mild, gentle) and ""La Brava"" (which for maritime context indicates a very rough sea) respectively, because of the similarities of conditions with Playa Mansa and Playa Brava on either side of Punta del Este. The ""Brava"" beach is usually preferred in the morning and at noon in the summer, while in the afternoon the wind usually blows east and swimmers move to the ""Mansa"" beach and to the rocks around the west side of Punta Colorada, where there are natural sandy pools sheltered from the wind. Brava beach is"
"and Richard Chapman described the piece as ""full of effortless delicacy with cascading phrases"". La Barrosa La Barrosa (meaning ""Mud coloured"") is a flamenco piece by Spanish virtuoso guitarist Paco de Lucía. An alegrías, it featured on his 1987 album ""Siroco"" and is one of his best known and acclaimed works. The piece is named after Playa la Barrosa, a 6 km long beach in Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz. He has performed it all across the world including a performance in front of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid in 1996 and televised nationally on TVE1. It is played in"
"Playa de las Américas Playa de las Américas is a purpose-built holiday resort in the southern and southern-west part of the Municipality of Arona, close to the adjoining Municipality of Adeje in the west of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. It was built in the 1960s beside the town of Los Cristianos and stretching west to the Costa Adeje. The resort area features bars, nightclubs, restaurants, attractions, and beaches, most of which are man-made with imported sand from Africa due to the darkness of the native volcanic sand. Playa de las Americas is a centre of nightlife in Tenerife."
"from south of Cancún to Tulum and the Sian Ka'an biosphere reserve. Playa is a stop for several cruise ships which dock at the nearby Calica quarry docks, about six miles (10 km) south of the city. The Xcaret Eco Park, a Mexican-themed ""eco-archaeological park"", is a popular tourist destination located just south of the town in Xcaret (pronounced ""ish-kar-et""). In October 2005, Hurricane Wilma passed directly over Playa del Carmen, remaining in the vicinity for two days and causing significant damage and a temporary drop in tourist arrivals. Most of the damage was relatively superficial and repaired within a"
"Playa de la Arena Playa De La Arena receives thousands of tourists a year, mainly from Spain and the United Kingdom, but also from Germany and The Netherlands. There are three main hotels in Playa De La Arena, which are the Playa La Arena hotel, which can be seen from the main part of the town, Barcelo Varadero and the Bahia Flamingo. The Hotel Playa La Arena is situated in the resort of Puerto Santiago, on the rise overlooking Playa La Arena village. The hotel has 432 rooms, three bars (Piano (Evening), Nightclub (Entertainment every night) & Pool (daytime)) and"
"Tabarca Tabarca (, ) also known in Valencian as ""Nova Tabarca"" and ""Illa Plana"", and in Spanish as ""Nueva Tabarca"" and ""Isla Plana"", is an islet located in the Mediterranean Sea, close to the town of Santa Pola, in the province of Alicante, Valencian community, Spain. Tabarca is the smallest permanently inhabited islet in Spain and it is currently known for its marine reserve. Despite being much more socially and economically related to the fishing port of Santa Pola, the tiny island of Tabarca is a part of the city of Alicante. Administratively, it is managed as a rural district"
"Playa (before 1976 part of Marianao), one of the 15 municipalities in Cuba's capital, Havana. The original club was founded in 1932 in a small wooden venue at ""calle Consulado y pasaje “A”"" (currently ""calle 29, n. 6007""). In 1939, due to lack of space the club relocated to number 4610 on Avenue 31, between ""calles"" 46 and 48, in Almendares, Marianao. This location is recalled by Juan Cruz, former director of the Marianao Social Club and master of ceremonies at the Salón Rosado de la Tropical (other nightclubs in Havana). As seen in the ""Buena Vista Social Club"" documentary,"
"La Playa became an informal town of up to 800 people during the Mexican years (1822-1846), centered on a dozen or so huge ""hide houses"" where cattle hides were processed and stored until they could be exported for sale. The hide houses were named for the Boston trading ships they served. The first and best known was the ""Brookline"" captained by James O. Locke, where the American flag was first raised over California (unofficially) in 1829. The La Playa harbor hosted vessels from almost every maritime nation in the world during this period. The Old La Playa site was registered"
"Playas, New Mexico Playas is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hidalgo County, the ""bootheel"" of the southwestern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 74. It is a former company town, named after a nearby former settlement along the Southern Pacific Railroad. It was developed by the Phelps Dodge Corporation in the 1970s for employees of its then-new Hidalgo Copper Smelter, located south of the development. Over 270 rental homes, six apartment buildings, a post office, grocery/dry goods store (Phelps Dodge Mercantile), medical clinic with heliport,"
"Playa de Getares Playa de Getares is a beach in the municipality of Algeciras, southeastern Spain. It overlooks the Bay of Gibraltar about south of the city of Algeciras, between Punta San García and Punta Carnero, where the cliffs begin on the Strait of Gibraltar. It is approximately in length and wide on average. The name comes from a Roman fish salting factory which was located in the old Roman town in the vicinity of Caetaria, and was called Cetares, and then Xetares during the Middle Ages, named in the chronicles of Alfonso XI. The whole beach is surrounded by"
"Playa del Carmen Playa del Carmen () is a city located along the Caribbean Sea in the municipality of Solidaridad, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is a popular tourist area in eastern Mexico. Playa del Carmen features a wide array of tourist activities due to its geographical location in the Riviera Maya. It has also been the destination of PGA Tour golf tournaments and the set location for various television shows. The town has become one of the fastest to grow in population size in Mexico. Playa del Carmen is located within the Riviera Maya, which runs"
"Beach), according to the 2010 Census. The Peninsula Planning Area, which includes most of Point Loma, comprises approximately . Point Loma is historically important as the landing place of the first European expedition to come ashore in present-day California. The peninsula has been described as ""where California began"". Today, Point Loma houses two major military bases, a national cemetery, a national monument, and a university, in addition to residential and commercial areas. Loma is the Spanish word for hill. The original name of the peninsula was La Punta de la Loma de San Diego, translated as Hill Point of San"
"shores of the Caribbean Sea. It is located at 17.9839°N 66.6128°W, and it has an elevation of 10 feet. The toponomy, or origin of the name, describes the geographic area the barrio occupies in southern Ponce and facing the Caribbean Sea. It is bounded on the North by PR-2, on the South by the Caribbean Sea, on the West by Río Matilde, and on the East by Río Bucaná. In terms of barrio-to-barrio boundaries, Playa is bounded in the North by Canas Urbano and San Anton, in the South by the Caribbean Sea, in the West by Canas, and in"
"Calica Calica is a quarry and a port on the Quintana Roo coast of Mexico. The name is short for the full Spanish name Calizas Industriales del Carmen, ""calizas"" Spanish for lime or limestone (cognate to the English ""calcite."") The port is primarily used to dock ships for loading aggregate (gravel and sand) used for construction. The Calica quarry was originally part of a joint venture between Vulcan Materials Company and Grupo ICA, but Vulcan purchased Grupo ICA interest in 2001. The port facilities also serve to dock cruise line ships to access the resort town of Playa del Carmen,"
"Vera, Spain Vera is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Today Vera is one of the most important commercial centres in the region, with a thriving traditional core and a number of supermarkets and commercial organisations spread along the ring road. Vera itself lies approximately inland from the coast, but the municipality extends to the sea shore. There, a tourist settlement, named Vera Playa, has been developed. This now forms the main economic activity of Vera. Since 1990, Vera Playa has developed into an important centre for naturism (nudism). The earliest Carthaginian, Roman and"
"Albufera The Albufera, or L'Albufera de València (, meaning ""lagoon"" in Catalan, from Arabic البحيرة ""al-buhayra"", ""small sea""), is a freshwater lagoon and estuary on the Gulf of Valencia coast of the Valencian Community in eastern Spain. It is the main portion of the ""Parc Natural de l'Albufera de València"" (""Valencian Albufera Natural Park""), with a surface area of . The natural biodiversity of the nature reserve allows a great variety of flora and fauna to thrive and be observed year-round. Though once a saltwater lagoon, dilution due to irrigation and canals draining into the estuary and the sand bars"
"Playa de Santa Bárbara Playa de Santa Bárbara is a beach in the municipality of La Línea de la Concepción, in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, located to the north of Gibraltar. It has a length of about and average width of about . It is a busy beach promenade bounded by the city limits and south to the border with Gibraltar with Gibraltar Airport runway to the east and on the north by the Playa de Levante. In its vicinity are the remains of the Fort of Santa Barbara, an old fortification that participated in the Great Siege"